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A recent study of cooperative territorial defence in lions, Panthera leo , described the correct ranking structure for a Prisoner's Dilemma [ 34 35 ] . However, cooperators did not retaliate against defectors.
India would never be the first to strike, and it would retaliate only against a nuclear power that had used nuclear weapons against it.
The treaty's proponents respond that the U.S. military would be unlikely to retaliate with chemical weapons in any case and is already moving to destroy its stockpiles.
Another chill set in between India and Pakistan, where the newspaper Dawn led Wednesday with Pakistan's putting its forces on "full alert" and announcing its right to retaliate after India launched airstrikes on disputed Kashmir.
In Italy, Milan's Corriere della Sera said it didn't believe that Clinton had attacked Iraq to gain time on impeachment--it was the United States that wanted to retaliate before returning to the issue of its president.